INDIA.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 729, 9 April 1853, Page 3

INDIA.

From the “ Melbourne Argus” March 14. Wc have received a few copies of Hie Hie Calcutta Englishman to Ihe ord January lasi. They furnish a few further scraps of intelligence in reference to the Burmese war. On the 20th of December, a proclamation annexing Pegu, was read on board H. M. S. Fox , and on shore the next morning. The Governor-General was about to proceed to Rangoon, and the Englishman concludes that he intends to visit Ava in her, and to invite the King to take his passage back in the yacht, to the apartments which will be made ready to receive him at Fort William, As the annexation of a kingdom is not an every day occurrence, even by the British, wc think it right to give a short account ol the new acquisition. Perm was formerly independent, and was one of the most flourishing kingdoms in Further India. It comprises the whole Delta of (he Irrawadi, the only river connecting the Burmese Empire with the Ocean. The chief towns are Rangoon, Remain, and Henzeda. Pegu, its former capital, at one time contained 150,000 inhabitants, but the trade having been removed to Rangoon, it is now an inconsiderable village. The kingdom of Pegu was conquered by the Burmese in 1757. it is rich in natural resources. It has splendid forests of the finest leak timber, which forms its staple export, it exports likewise catechu, wax, lac, ivory, cotton, gold, gems, pomes ; and even under the the present wretched Government, the trade amounts in value to about 000,000 L